What are our objectives in Syria?

6:30 PM,
Jan. 3, 2014

Written by

Dennis Lamb
Guest Opinion

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the decision to help Syrian rebels was made to give them more power in negotiating an end to the civil war.

That's nuts! Following that logic, we should be arming the Palestinians to give them more power in negotiating with the Israelis.

When I read that the Obama Administration, under pressure from Congress, announced that it planned to provide weapons to the Syrian rebels after the Syrian Government started to make significant progress against the rebels, Harry Truman's statement on the floor of the Senate on June 23, 1941, came to mind: "If we see that ...